Let's be war buddies...

[initiates]

Date & Time: 18th, beginning at 2100 hours, through to the 20th.
Location: All around Exsilium.
Characters: Everyone!
Summary: The United Earth decides Exsilium had obviously not learned its lesson back in October, and does another round of humble-making bombing for those impertinent exiles. OOC info can be found here.
Warnings: Violence, death, general gloom and doom.

The warning had gone out approximately two hours before the bombing began, broadcast to any available receptor on the island: UE aggressions incoming, bombs expected; please proceed to Catacombs immediately. It repeats over and over, right up until the first bomb, aimed at the Hold itself, silences the signal.

The air is thick with smoke and worse. Every one to two hours another bomb shakes the island. Buildings crumble and shatter, but the focus is on the Hold and the native hospital. Initiative employees, some sick as anyone else, are steadfast in their escorting natives and transports alike into the underground catacombs. For two days the bombs continue ceaselessly, dropped by their cloaked and invisible carriers overhead.

The United Earth is nothing if not thorough.

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[satsujinki]

Were you venturing out?

[Shiki wasn't exactly feeling compassionate. There was a time to fight and a time to retreat. Of all things, to a guy who clung to the shadows when others would stand in the light and fight, his choice was an easy one.]

You look like a mess.

omfg shiki u little shit

[taijiya]

[Sango freezes when she hears the familiar voice of the unpleasant psychopath she's has the pleasure of dealing with more than once. While her eyes are useless, her other senses are not, and she turns towards the source of the sound with a hard look on her face. Her fingers also fly to the sword at her waist, despite the fact that it's currently useless.]

It's none of your business.

chillax sango he's just stylin

[satsujinki]

You need to relax. I've heard that venom from the bombs can make your breathing even more difficult, too.

[Despite that, he tensed up just a little. Regardless of whether or not she was armed, Shiki had no interest in a violent confrontation--if only because of what he could unleash on his own end if he got put in that sort of direction.]

You should have fled when the sirens came on.

no go away

[taijiya]

It's not that, I...

[Wait, no. She doesn't owe him an explanation. She doesn't need to tell him that she's just not fully recovered from the virus yet.

While she doesn't intend on a fight, she's in a heightened state of nervousness, so gripping the sword feels right.]

I did evacuate. And then I went out and saved people because I couldn't sit in the dark and listen to them dying.

sorry even if he left it would leave residuals

[satsujinki]

[He hiked a brow, sitting back down right there on the ground.]

So, your alternative was to put yourself in a situation where you could easily die with them.

You should leave that stuff to the superhumans.

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[taijiya]

Yes, that was my alternative. And it was my choice to make, so I don't really see why you're trying to scold me for it. Your opinion of all people's is the least likely to make me regret it. Actually, any disapproval you might have just makes me that much more sure I did the right thing.

[The right thing--and went blind for it. But she has pride to preserve, here. She can handle the blind thing later.]

[satsujinki]

That's a childish perspective to have. What do I care if you spite me, you stupid woman?

Which one of us is clinging to their pet, barely breathing?

[taijiya]

[Kirara, who does not take kindly to insults to her mistress or being called a pet, snarls. Coming from a lion-sized beast with fangs nearly a foot long, this is definitely a threatening sight. Sango stands her ground for her part, making no attempt to calm her beast.]

If you didn't care, you wouldn't be trying to invalidate my spite by calling me stupid. Funny how offended you are when someone so childish has the nerve to call you out.

[satsujinki]

You're a pain in the ass--you know that? Regular human beings should live normally and not get themselves involved in the work of monsters.

[Shiki got up, looking over Kirara with apathy in his eyes. The golden eyes of a True Ancestor made the sight of anything else seem soft and cuddly in comparison.]

And, it's no good trying to intimidate me, cat. Your master's a 'hero'. As much as she dislikes me, she'd invalidate her stupidity if she let you eat me.

[taijiya]

Being a pain in the ass to people like you is what I do best.

[At this point, Sango only humphs.]

There wouldn't be any point. You'd be resurrected in days.

What is the point of you being here? You're wasting our time.

[satsujinki]

It's probably my love for life and my own eyesight.

[Ironic, that he was likely going to lose his eye-sight because of his power, anyway.]

As for you, I advise you stay off the heroic path awhile. The problem with being able to come back as many times as you want is--you'll remember how it ended each time.

[He turned to leave, pulling his burial cloth over his eyes.]

[taijiya]

[Sango says nothing as he leaves, thinking that if what Kagura said is true, she doesn't have much to lose anyway.]